=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/lyrics.html,v retrieving revision 1.145 retrieving revision 1.146 diff -u -r1.145 -r1.146 --- www/lyrics.html 2014/03/28 06:07:27 1.145 +++ www/lyrics.html 2014/03/28 22:38:42 1.146 @@ -137,14 +137,16 @@ POSIX operating systems have made strong inroads into embedded roles, so this is anticipated to be substantially worse than the Y2K transition.

-Over the summer of 2013, Philip Guenther started the OpenBSD work to -solve this. The time_t type was changed to int64_t on all -platforms, and the kernel and userland were adapted to the new -situation. The initial work was commited right after OpenBSD 5.4, -then polished over the next 6 months. +In August of 2012, Philip Guenther started the OpenBSD work to +solve this. +After a year of work it was ready enough for merging, and in August 2013 +the time_t type was changed to int64_t on all +platforms and the kernel and userland were adapted to the new +situation. The initial work was committed right after OpenBSD 5.4, +then polished in tree over the next 6 months.

The next part of the process was to drag the "ports" software -ecosystem along because noone else had paved the way for 32-bit +ecosystem along because no one else had paved the way for 32-bit machines to run with 64-bit time_t. This required a fair bit of upstream involvement. Thousands of fixes were required to make both 32-bit and 64-bit time work transparently. There will